296 - Zao Wou-Ki - René Char. *Les compagnons dans le jardin*. Paris: Louis Broder, 1957. With four color etchings, one of which serves as the frontispiece. Loose double-sheets in original cover, slipcase, and slip jacket. - Signed copy.

Zao Wou-Ki - René Char. *Les compagnons dans le jardin*. Paris: Louis Broder, 1957. With four color etchings, one of which serves as the frontispiece. Loose double-sheets in original cover, slipcase, and slip jacket. - Signed copy. Auction time: approx. 3:47 p.m. (schedule subject to change) Collection Miroir du Poète II—one of ten copies marked “H. C.” (total print run 140). - Signed by the artist and poet in the colophon; this copy also bears a handwritten dedication by the poet: “Pour Maryse qui n’a donné la passeré du beau Temps. R. C.“ Maryse Lafont (1918–2001), a poet herself, was René Char’s partner at the time. - Etchings printed by Robert Dutrou, Paris. Rivière 108–111. - Benoit, Char 79. - Monod 2611 16.5 × 14.5 cm. 51, [15] pages. - Spine of the chemise faded and stained. - Cover has foxing. English description: With four color etchings, one of which serves as the frontispiece. Loose double-sheets in their original wrapper, in a chemise and slipcase. Collection Miroir du Poète II. - One of 10 copies “H. C.” (total print run 140). - With a handwritten dedication by the poet: “Pour Maryse qui n’a donné la passeré du beau Temps. R. C.” Maryse Lafont (1918–2001), a poet herself, was René Char’s partner at the time. - Signed by the artist and poet in the colophon. - Etchings printed by Robert Dutrou, Paris. - The edition numbers listed by Mourlot and Benoit differ from those in the printer’s mark. Spine of the slipcase faded and stained. Wrapper foxed.